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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by ericboone The detail of O scale is nice, but your layout would only be the size of a small bedroom HO scale layout. 17 x 18 would make a very nice N scale layout. I guess it depends upon what is important to you. I would start by listing and ranking what is most important to you. Here is my prioritized list and why I model what I model. 1. Model the railroad that ran past the home I grew up in and my grandfather worked for, especially the yard and shops he worked in. 2. Steam! 3. Long mainline with some distance between towns 4. Historically accurate (I'm a little bit rivet counter. [swg] ) 5. Use HO scale equipment I already have 6. Have some level of detail Because of my list above, I am modeling the Pere Marquette in 1946 from Grand Rapids, MI to Holland, MI. This is just prior to rapid dieselization on the line after the C&O merger. This is the line I grew up next to, although steam was already looooong gone. Just west of downtown GR is the yard my grandfather worked at. The choice of scale comes from making comprimises. I love the detail and weight of O scale, but I would have difficulty fitting in the yard and shops my grandfather worked in and have a good distance between towns. N scale would allow me to have a nearly uncompressed yard, shops, and other areas and some real distance between towns, but the level of detail just isn't there for me. Thus HO strikes the right balance for me and there is a very good selection of rollingstock and locomotives. [/quote] You model the area I live in!!!! Glad to see someone is modeling that awesome streach of mainline.[^]
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